[REPORT] Russia Admits Losing 10,000 Soldiers Within 4 Weeks of Ukraine Invasion, Following Airstrike in Mariupol

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Members of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) stand at attention next to armored vehicles during a ceremony to mark the 22nd anniversary of the killing of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) founding member and commander Adem Jashari, in Pristina on March 5, 2022. - Kosovo's parliament approved a resolution on March 3 asking the government to start negotiations on NATO membership following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Armend NIMANI / AFP)

Russia has conceded that its invasion of Ukraine cost them approximately 10,000 troops.

A pro-Kremlin tabloid provided the previously undisclosed number, which reveals the full cost of Vladimir Putin's catastrophic invasion.

When the Russian dictator authorized the invasion, he expected a quick triumph, but his soldiers have run across stubborn Ukrainian opposition and may shortly succumb. Russia has kept the full death toll hidden and just confessed to 498 dead on March 2.

Russian Soldiers Who Died in Ukraine Include 5 Generals

However, in an unexpected move, Komsomolskaya Pravda stated that 9,861 Russian servicemen died in Ukraine and 16,153 were injured, according to the Russian military ministry. Ukraine claims to have killed about 15,000 Russians and destroyed a significant amount of equipment, as per The Sun.

The latest Russian statistics are higher than the 7,000 people believed to have perished and up to 21,000 people injured by the US military, according to reports. Russia is discreetly transferring the bodies of dead Russian soldiers home via Belarus on trains and ambulances at night in order to conceal the real death toll.

Five Russian generals, as well as other top commanders, including those from special paratrooper groups, are among the dead. The deputy commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet is the latest senior officer to die, dealing another blow to Vladimir Putin's military.

Vladimir Putin Accused of Abducting Ukrainian Children

Putin is accused of abducting approximately 2,500 Ukrainian children from Donetsk and Luhansk and deporting them to Russia in scenes reminiscent of "Nazi" transports. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Russia of kidnapping children through forced relocation, warning that the purported deportations constitute a grave breach of international humanitarian law in particular.

Per Daily Mail, it comes only hours after Kyiv's intelligence service accused Moscow of deporting Ukrainians to filtration centers before forcefully transporting them to distant Siberian settlements after seizing their phones and documents.

The Ukrainian foreign ministry urged the international community to respond to the unlawful transfer of children, warning that depriving children of parental care puts their lives in peril in Russia and that those who commit these crimes will face prosecution.

Before chairing a meeting of the EU's foreign ministers in Brussels, EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell declared that what is occurring in Mariupol is a gigantic war crime: destruction of properties, bombardment, and indiscriminate slaughter of people

Hundreds of refugees from the beleaguered southeastern port city of Mariupol have just arrived in Russia, according to Russian news sources. A trainload of over 280 Ukrainians was also "rescued" from Mariupol, according to Moscow officials, who showed video of them applauding Russian soldiers.

Mariupol is experiencing a humanitarian crisis after being trapped by Russian soldiers, cut off from energy, food, and water supplies, and bombarded mercilessly. On the 25th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials claim that Russian soldiers bombed an art school in Mariupol, where more than 400 people took shelter.

According to local officials, the G12 art school in Mariupol was burned while women, children, and the elderly were inside. There were no casualties recorded at the time. A bomb erupted in a Mariupol theatre earlier on Wednesday, killing 1,300 people, Republic World reported.

Mariupol, a major port on the Azov Sea in Ukraine, has been pounded for at least three weeks and has experienced some of the worst tragedies possible. According to the report, at least 2,300 individuals were slain, with some of them having to be buried in mass graves. The city has run out of food, water, and electricity.

As Russia claimed to have fired a second hypersonic missile into Ukraine on Sunday, Ukraine's human rights spokesperson, Lyudmyla Denisova, accused Russian soldiers of kidnapping Mariupol people and taking them to Russia.

Mariupol, Ukraine's biggest port on the Azov Sea, has been battered for at least three weeks and has seen some of the worst disasters.

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